[Poruku]

G6 revival thread
This isn't about complaining about Korvara, it's about solutions only. It's about going back.

I suggest we start thinking about some more concrete plans to revitalize G6. I think having both Korvara and G6 be semi-active is possible but we have to make a genuine, community effort for it to happen. Part of this is to begin with a simple thing: drumming up support for the cause. I believe there's a ton of people out there who want to go back to G6, who want to bring it back. But we're not united. We're scattered, reduced to naught but dropping nostalgic tweets in the yokoshura ooc. I believe that if we unite and actually try, we can absolutely make this happen.

We need ideas, we need LFGs, we need people to come out and propose some stuff. Maybe we run some events that people want to see.

Personally I've got a little recent G6 group with events, but the activity really dropped cause I just couldn't keep up the steam. And I think it wasn't really widespread appeal enough. Maybe I should do just a classic eventline, or really just any kind of events.

We should bring back the old LFG spots as well. And not just the LFG spots; what we gotta do is create LFGs to advertise ancient hangout spots such as the C. square and the arena. These locations are crucial for G6's survival, and the only reason people don't gather is because people don't gather. What you gotta do is be that first speck of snow that starts the avalanche. Post your activity, and maybe 1-2 people may show up. But it's about the long game as well. Only 3 guys in the arena, but it gets people talking. Before you know it, it's 3 guys MINIMUM in the arena.

Let's get some fresh new locations to open up too! I mean have you seen the asago housing situation out there? You got PREEM spots just open, waiting to be harvested like premium strawberries. Grab your ticket and go open up your dream café or ball pit salon. Then LFG that shit. And don't give up after just one attempt that got like 1.5 people to show up. We're placing the first stones of a kingdom here. It's gonna start slow. But we can do this.

Any other ideas?

[Druby]

As one of the guys who actively talks about how much Korvara doesn't appeal to me, I figure I ought to make a post in here since someone's making a genuine attempt to do something I'd really actually like to see happen.

I do want to start first by saying that I don't think it's something very easily done. I don't believe SL2 has the player base to really support both Korvara and G6 as two separate environments. The population of SL2 fluctuates with slow points as things people get bored or other games release, and high points as Dev releases new updates, but I'd estimate from my own time on SL2 that the average player count on your regular day somewhere in-between those two points to be roughly 60-70 keys logged in. We can take the middle ground there and call it about 65.

Of those 65 accounts, not all of them are actively participating in the RP environment at the same time either. Let's give some more rough estimates here, with 5 of those players being alts (people who might be multikeying for any number of reasons), another 5 to be people idle (just tabbed out or passed out or otherwise forgotten they were on the game at the time) and another 5 people to be off grinding. I think this is a relatively conservative estimate, particularly with people grinding, but these numbers also fluctuate so it's hard to really give a good estimation.

In whichever case, we've cut down our 65 active accounts to approximately 50 people actively looking to RP, or otherwise engaged in RP at a time. That's not a bad number. On Korv, this would be split between the various cities or more neutral RP spaces, while on G6, they'd be clustered in the main hubs, with some people scattered about in more random locations in both circumstances. However, if you try to roughly split that 50 account number between two active play spaces at the same time evenly, you end up with 25 per play area. That's a much less tenable to maintain activity with on a regular basis. This sort of thing is why, I feel, that activity is just going to go to whichever part of SL2 has the greater share of people. Activity causes people to congregate. No one wants to spend their time on a game doing nothing, and RP is inherently social. Not to mention, people possibly splitting time between characters on both environments is a bit more of a hassle than just maintaining regular alts. None of this is really an easy thing to fix without an increased player base with a roughly equal split in interest in either G6 or Korvara. And Korvara naturally just has the advantage as the current active play space. People are already there, so people aren't as interested in moving from there. Point is, I'm not praying for Korvara's downfall or anything, I'm not looking to ruin anyone's fun who does enjoy Korvara, but I don't really see a world where G6 gets regular activity again like before without Korvara suffering for it.

Really quickly, just addressing your eventline that you did briefly in G6 Polk, I've heard pretty good things about it. I never participated myself, but I spoke with people who have and they seemed to enjoy it. I'm sad to hear that you couldn't keep it up, because it was nice to see activity in G6 for the short while you were doing things. Though, I do kind of agree with you, a cyberpunk sort of vibe is a bit more niche on a fantasy game like SL2, though it still definitely has its place. It just wasn't something I wanted to fit myself into at the time.

Onto the actual topic you want to address, the question of how? I honestly think it's relatively simple. You need regular activity on G6 to get people back. In principle, that's a super simple thing. In practice, that's much more difficult. While I do think it's possible, I think it'd take at least a core of... Maybe 20-ish people active there? Just spit balling a number I think would at least make G6 feel like it was bit more lively again. Get people RPing in the old spots, PVP in the old arena, and so on. I still hop on G6 from time to time, partially for nostalgia's sake, and sometimes just because I prefer the feel of grinding and running dungeons there over Korvara. And while I've been there, I've seen the occasional bit of activity still there. Every now and then, there's a party hitting up dungeons, sometimes there's a trio or so of people in Cellsvich. I put up an LFG once and got a decent PVP crowd in the Arena going for a night. I'm sure there are people who'd be interested, but the issue is getting the ball rolling. Like I said, no one wants to log onto an empty game. Regular activities or LFGs would help for sure, letting people know the lights are being kept on for lack of a better word. Eventlines would absolutely help to bring people back, content and stuff to do would be a relatively easy sell to get people to at least try G6 and see if it's to their liking for the newer crowd on SL2. But, I think the short of it is that, something like this would just really need a concentrated effort by an actual group of people. Not just people hopping on every now and then, but regular activity. A group of friends who actively want to do stuff on G6, grind there, make content, and so on. And I'd happily be a part of that, but the issue is just keeping that momentum from flickering out when there's, realistically, an easier opportunity to find what you want on Korvara instead right now.

[Poruku]

Yeah but what about all the people who don't log in because they don't like Korvara? There's a bunch of potential players who aren't part of that 65, who might actually log in if the prospect was to rp on G6. And I'm not just talking about people who quit the game. There's also the korvara players who don't play as much as they used to. There's also the players who log in for a couple minutes, don't find people or a thing they wanna do, and log out.

And of course it's a matter of getting the ball rolling. But I think it's easier than we might think. People do show up to the LFGs, they just need to know there's people around. I'm gonna try to keep up some semi-regular activity. I don't think we necessarily need a whole group of people on the same page as long as we got enough individuals who make the effort to initiate either LFG, events, or make a point to at least exist in a public space even if they are alone. An area is always empty until one person stands there, waiting for others to arrive. Then the people who were just checking if there's people will have the chance to stay, and from there it becomes active. It always takes that one first person who is patient.

[Druby]

The people who've left Korvara have effectively quit the game. I'd say that most of that category of people probably aren't the sort to keep constant check of a game they feel like they dislike. I will admit, that list does involve a lot of people, the player landscape is extremely different now compared to the old days, and there are probably a lot of Korvara players I don't even know that have come and gone. But a lot of people also left on very bad terms. Hamoka, Goose, MakeshiftWalrus just to name a few I know personally. It all ends up for various reasons, but I doubt any of those folks are checking SL2 or logging in on a regular basis to even see if there's activity on G6, if they'd even be interested in coming back to SL2 at all.

That isn't to say players who've left aren't people you could get to come back, but that's probably more of a long and slow process, where on occasion someone get nostalgia or an urge to play or contact friends again, etc. Which, again, comes back to a concentrated and very regular effort to keep G6 active.

LFGs are easy, but people probably aren't going to super regularly swap continents cause a single person threw up an LFG. Events would take an actual effort making and upkeeping semi-regular events to have a real effect. And, as for standing alone, that requires people passing by to really get a scene going. Again- I don't think it's impossible, but I do think that there is a bit of unrealistic optimism going on here. If someone could keep up very steady and regular activity going on, maybe over a long period of time it could work? But I think the most direct and viable method would just be a jumpstart of G6 again with a dedicated group who log on explicitly for G6. In the absence of a friend group of some sort that's willing to do that, public eventlines are probably the next best thing. Either that or Korvara implodes and players just come back to G6 naturally.

[Blissey]

I'm down to go G6 stuff on Mavis. I have no other input.

[Skimmy2]

While it's far from being as ambitious as attempting to revive g6.

I have personally been working on the notes and set up behind the scenes to attempt Mercalan Sermons on Stevie once or twice a month. o7

[the REAL Minos Prime]

I have thought of reviving my original G6 character, and I also have wanted to try my hand at a new G6 character for a while, and to keep up the Mercalan train, one of them being a priest.